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That was more like it. A home win against 11-18 Oregon was to be expected, but a team can only take what the schedule gives and if Brick Laying Ducks are on the menu, then it’s time to eat. A 21-0 first half run and a 15-

After watching all the student managers and cheerleaders take their final photos on the court after the game, I looked up the date of the final home basketball game when I was a student. It was March 9, 1996. That will be 30 years ago this coming Monday. I wasn&

I hate that last exit out of the State Farm Center at the end of a basketball season. That slow walk around the concourse, taking in the sights and sounds, trying to savor each moment before that cold walk to the parking lot. Feeling wistful, but grateful at the same

I actually wanted to write this one. I doubt many will want to read it (believe me - I get it), but my brain wanted to walk this one back. The post-game angst from Illini Nation was well placed. Everyone watching got a glimpse of the future. This was how

"We'll live-blog this one!", we said. Tyler from media row behind the scorers table, me from up in the media seats in the 200-level. He'd share what things are like down there, I'd share what things are like up here,

Since leaving Champaign as a proud graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 1997, I have lived in Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; New York, New York and, now and for the last 13 years, in Athens, Georgia. When I left Champaign, I did not

Here's how this usually goes. I figure out a way to frame something. You're tired of hearing about the subject, but I can't not say more because I think that I've figured out a way to better explain it. 64% of you